Domenico Tedesco had to step down as coach of RB Leipzig on Wednesday, and a day later Marco Rose was announced as his successor.
Marco Rose is the new coach of Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. The 45-year-old native of Leipzig follows Domenico Tedesco, who was released on Wednesday, in the DFB Cup winners and will receive a contract until 2024. The Saxons announced this on Thursday. The former professional soccer players Alexander Zickler, Frank Geideck and Marco Kurth will work as assistant coaches. Marco Kurth worked for Leipzig from 2017 until the last winter break.
Marco Rose knows the RB cosmos
The new coach wants to shake RB out of lethargy. “That is the core task, to turn the mood around with a lot of energy and power and get results again,” said Marco Rose at his presentation on Thursday. A new level of stability “doesn’t mean that we’re only going to put ourselves in the back,” he emphasized.
Rose starts in Leipzig with a hammer program: In the league he first meets his former clubs Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the second game of the Champions League group stage, RB will also be visiting defending champions Real Madrid next Wednesday. Rose was on leave from BVB at the end of the 2021/22 season. He previously worked in Gladbach and at RB Salzburg, where he earned a good reputation in the RB cosmos.
Rose hopes for Eberl commitment
In addition to the head coach, there is obviously still persistent advertising for the new sports director. In the balance is an agreement with Borussia Mönchengladbach, where Max Eberl – Mintzlaff’s preferred candidate for the orphaned post – still has a dormant but valid contract. “It’s an open secret that the club is trying to get him. I would be very happy if that worked,” Rose confessed. “Then I would have a man by my side who would do me and us good.” Rose and Eberl know each other from Gladbach times.
Missed start costs Tedesco the job
RB Leipzig had on Wednesday (September 7th) after the disappointments in the first weeks of the Bundesliga and the 1:4 home defeat separated from head coach Domenico Tedesco and his assistants Andreas Hinkel and Max Urwantschky at the start of the Champions League group phase against Shaktar Donetsk.
Tedesco took over the job Beginning of December 2021 by the hapless American Jesse Marsch and subsequently led the team, which had slipped to eleventh place in the Bundesliga at the time, into the Champions League. To top it all off, the best second half team in the league won on 21 May the DFB Cup thanks to the final victory on penalties against SC Freiburg – RB Leipzig’s first major title win ever.
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